Barack Obama has proven that repeatedly during his time in office. Just witness the number of sudden retirements, transfers and missing personnel related to the Benghazi coverup. The man has more vendettas than the Italian Mafia Wives Club.

His current spate of political hits began when Republicans wouldn’t give in to his threats about sequester cuts and raise taxes like he wanted.

The GOP told President Barack Obama to go ahead and cut the government on the theory that he would be going along with one of their major policies for a change.

President Obama, who saw his popularity and political capital plunge when the sequester deadline struck and the Republicans didn’t bow, has now settled on making the cuts as painful to the GOP as possible. That means making the public suffer.

That’s why, instead of cutting exorbitant government salaries, pensions, throwaway grants for meaningless studies or curtailing entertainment and travel expenses for government bigshots, you get things like refusing to refurbish and refuel an active duty aircraft carrier, cutting back school programs for low-income kids and reducing meat inspections.